In case you are bored of me going on about the apprentice and winning it, here is a video I made with all the footage shot on our GoPro on ski tour in Val Thorens at the beginning of December. One of the best weeks of my life. Equally as tiring as the apprentice, a lot less hard work and probably a bit more fun!
Unfortunately youtube significantly reduces the quality of the amazing GoPro footage and clearness but whack into HD anyway and use your imagination. (Maybe I'm just not uploading it right?)
There were only 4 teams in the final and could be only one winner. At 7.30pm we were given the final challenge- to create a new product for one of the companies listed. By midnight we still could not decide what our product was going to be. I was keen to push for Louis Vuitton as our company choice and, of course, eventually I had my way and we went with ski wear for Louis Vuitton.
Ok, ski wear is not an innovative product idea, but it is new to Louis Vuitton and the more we began to conduct market research, the more it made sense as a product diversification for the Louis Vuitton house. Below is the Powerpoint which accompanied our 10 minute presentation and the video concept we put together to illustrate the themes behind our product.
I have a business module this term where we have to create our own business, a business plan, a presentation etc. This challenge was essentially the same, but in less than 24 hours instead of 10 weeks.
We had a 12 page report which accompanied our presentation and had been up until 4pm on thursday night, and all day friday working on the final challenge. Our presentation went really well and I completely smashed the questions asked as fashion is pretty much my thing (haha).
In fact, we worked so hard on this whole week that when it came to waiting for them to decide the winner I don't think I have ever been so nervous! I'm not sure what I would have done if we had lost, I probably would have cried, but thankfully we didn't, we won. Winners of a £1000 for the team and of a hot ticket to the national semi-finals.
It was an absolutely mad week, I skipped too many hours of lectures (shhhh) but it was completely worth it and the team's hard work and dedication to the tasks completely paid off. It's all a bit surreal and I kind of feel like I just won an oscar but it shows what you can achieve if you work hard. A big thank you to all who swapped stuff/bough stuff off us/put up with my moaning all week.
Hopefully now I can get back to that 2000 word essay that I have been ignoring since last weekend.
The third task was where things really started to get serious as there were now 15 teams left and only 4 would be going through to the final. We were given the challenge of getting as many splat card sign ups and sales as possible. A splat card (for those who don't know) is a discount card specific to Warwick and Coventry uni students getting you discounts, free queue jump for local nightclubs etc. all for just £7.
We had less than 24 hours to sell as many as possible. My team spent over 7 hours stood outside various campus locations like the library, with our friend the blue power ranger, persuading people to buy splat cards. We used our shoutout from Warwick Radio to promote our blue power ranger and splat cards and managed to generate the most splat card sales out of all the teams, selling 45 cards and putting us through to the final!
Having made it through task 1, task 2 was to sell all the items we had swapped the previous day and then reinvest the money to generate a profit. The teams with the most money at the end of day 3 were through to the 3rd task.
Our team decided to buy £50 worth of alcohol and go round campus selling £1 raffle tickets for this alcohol. We managed to sell over 100 raffle tickets on campus which was pretty impressive given my lecture shoutout in front of 150 of my business school peers only raised about 3 ticket sales!!
Below is the video footage of task 2 and we generated about £170 in the task tasking us through to task 3.
This week I took part in the Warwick Apprentice. The most tiring, craziest, hardworking week of my life. 5 days and 4 challenges in a team of me and 3 friends. When we started at the beginning of this week we had no idea what to expect and we didn't think we even stood a chance against anyone else. But here we are a week later, winners of the warwick apprentice!!
This is the first task, we were given items and we had to swap them for items of higher value, in less than 24 hours. Below is the video footage we had to submit of the task. We ended up with over £200 worth of stuff in value...
Taking a half hour break from this essay so thought I would share my little room with you. It is very much like my room at home but on a smaller scale and it very much reflects me.
You may have noticed that I have refrained from showing the room in it's entirety. That is because it is ridiculously untidy and no one really wants to have to see that.
When I came back after christmas break I counted that I have 19 pairs of shoes here at uni, which is completely mad as there are only about 3 pairs of these that I wear on a regular basis. But they look so pretty lined up on my window they are more like works of art then actual wearable shoes so it's fine.
Good morning world.. Today is a lovely sunny day and I already feel more productive because of it. I am also up and showered and at my desk ready to get this essay done and it's only 10.30am.
Doesn't everything just look so much nicer when it's sunny?
It's going to be a busy week for me... The Warwick apprentice starts this evening. 5 days and 4 challenges in a team of 4 competing against other teams to win £1000. I am continuing to work on the costume design for a student play I have got involved in and I still have this awful essay to write.
On a separate note, how pretty are these rose petals? They're so soft I would literally love to sleep on a bed of them. I'm actually listening to La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong right now which is quite fitting with the pink petals.
I am well aware that it has been several months since I last blogged and for that I am very sorry. I hope that you can forgive me and that we can move on as friends. New year, new start and all that.
So anyway, a lot has changed for me since I was sunning myself in the South of France back in August and I am now definitely not sunning myself in the very grey and un-sunny West Midlands. I am uncertain why I have decided to start blogging again now but it may have something to do with an essay I am trying desperately to avoid and my hangover.
I pledge, from now, to continue to blog on a regular basis and to keep you updated with all the fun and games that I get up to at university, as well as the not so fun but no less interesting work.
Here is are some pictures of yesterday's WOW sunset:
In case you are bored of me going on about the apprentice and winning it, here is a video I made with all the footage shot on our GoPro on ski tour in Val Thorens at the beginning of December. One of the best weeks of my life. Equally as tiring as the apprentice, a lot less hard work and probably a bit more fun!
Unfortunately youtube significantly reduces the quality of the amazing GoPro footage and clearness but whack into HD anyway and use your imagination. (Maybe I'm just not uploading it right?)
There were only 4 teams in the final and could be only one winner. At 7.30pm we were given the final challenge- to create a new product for one of the companies listed. By midnight we still could not decide what our product was going to be. I was keen to push for Louis Vuitton as our company choice and, of course, eventually I had my way and we went with ski wear for Louis Vuitton.
Ok, ski wear is not an innovative product idea, but it is new to Louis Vuitton and the more we began to conduct market research, the more it made sense as a product diversification for the Louis Vuitton house. Below is the Powerpoint which accompanied our 10 minute presentation and the video concept we put together to illustrate the themes behind our product.
I have a business module this term where we have to create our own business, a business plan, a presentation etc. This challenge was essentially the same, but in less than 24 hours instead of 10 weeks.
We had a 12 page report which accompanied our presentation and had been up until 4pm on thursday night, and all day friday working on the final challenge. Our presentation went really well and I completely smashed the questions asked as fashion is pretty much my thing (haha).
In fact, we worked so hard on this whole week that when it came to waiting for them to decide the winner I don't think I have ever been so nervous! I'm not sure what I would have done if we had lost, I probably would have cried, but thankfully we didn't, we won. Winners of a £1000 for the team and of a hot ticket to the national semi-finals.
It was an absolutely mad week, I skipped too many hours of lectures (shhhh) but it was completely worth it and the team's hard work and dedication to the tasks completely paid off. It's all a bit surreal and I kind of feel like I just won an oscar but it shows what you can achieve if you work hard. A big thank you to all who swapped stuff/bough stuff off us/put up with my moaning all week.
Hopefully now I can get back to that 2000 word essay that I have been ignoring since last weekend.
The third task was where things really started to get serious as there were now 15 teams left and only 4 would be going through to the final. We were given the challenge of getting as many splat card sign ups and sales as possible. A splat card (for those who don't know) is a discount card specific to Warwick and Coventry uni students getting you discounts, free queue jump for local nightclubs etc. all for just £7.
We had less than 24 hours to sell as many as possible. My team spent over 7 hours stood outside various campus locations like the library, with our friend the blue power ranger, persuading people to buy splat cards. We used our shoutout from Warwick Radio to promote our blue power ranger and splat cards and managed to generate the most splat card sales out of all the teams, selling 45 cards and putting us through to the final!
Having made it through task 1, task 2 was to sell all the items we had swapped the previous day and then reinvest the money to generate a profit. The teams with the most money at the end of day 3 were through to the 3rd task.
Our team decided to buy £50 worth of alcohol and go round campus selling £1 raffle tickets for this alcohol. We managed to sell over 100 raffle tickets on campus which was pretty impressive given my lecture shoutout in front of 150 of my business school peers only raised about 3 ticket sales!!
Below is the video footage of task 2 and we generated about £170 in the task tasking us through to task 3.
This week I took part in the Warwick Apprentice. The most tiring, craziest, hardworking week of my life. 5 days and 4 challenges in a team of me and 3 friends. When we started at the beginning of this week we had no idea what to expect and we didn't think we even stood a chance against anyone else. But here we are a week later, winners of the warwick apprentice!!
This is the first task, we were given items and we had to swap them for items of higher value, in less than 24 hours. Below is the video footage we had to submit of the task. We ended up with over £200 worth of stuff in value...
Taking a half hour break from this essay so thought I would share my little room with you. It is very much like my room at home but on a smaller scale and it very much reflects me.
You may have noticed that I have refrained from showing the room in it's entirety. That is because it is ridiculously untidy and no one really wants to have to see that.
When I came back after christmas break I counted that I have 19 pairs of shoes here at uni, which is completely mad as there are only about 3 pairs of these that I wear on a regular basis. But they look so pretty lined up on my window they are more like works of art then actual wearable shoes so it's fine.
Good morning world.. Today is a lovely sunny day and I already feel more productive because of it. I am also up and showered and at my desk ready to get this essay done and it's only 10.30am.
Doesn't everything just look so much nicer when it's sunny?
It's going to be a busy week for me... The Warwick apprentice starts this evening. 5 days and 4 challenges in a team of 4 competing against other teams to win £1000. I am continuing to work on the costume design for a student play I have got involved in and I still have this awful essay to write.
On a separate note, how pretty are these rose petals? They're so soft I would literally love to sleep on a bed of them. I'm actually listening to La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong right now which is quite fitting with the pink petals.
I am well aware that it has been several months since I last blogged and for that I am very sorry. I hope that you can forgive me and that we can move on as friends. New year, new start and all that.
So anyway, a lot has changed for me since I was sunning myself in the South of France back in August and I am now definitely not sunning myself in the very grey and un-sunny West Midlands. I am uncertain why I have decided to start blogging again now but it may have something to do with an essay I am trying desperately to avoid and my hangover.
I pledge, from now, to continue to blog on a regular basis and to keep you updated with all the fun and games that I get up to at university, as well as the not so fun but no less interesting work.
Here is are some pictures of yesterday's WOW sunset:
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